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[00:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I hear Amazon is hiring - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:14] <exec> 08└─The laid-off losers can get grueling warehouse jobs. There will be money in delivering cheap crap to idiots for a few more years, until all warehouses go all-robot and delivery drones fill the skies and blot out the sun.
[00:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Sta - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:15] <exec> 08└─And nothing of value was lost!
[00:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:17] <exec> 08└─How is it possible that there were more employees than Windows phones?
[00:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:20] <exec> 08└─Forcing a UI better-suited to a phone or tablet onto a desktop wasn't the first of their idiotic decisions. However, I can think of one business decision more idiotic than that - Apple's no-button mouse. Fucking pants-on-head retarded, especially for a platform famous for media work.
[00:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:22] <exec> 08└─I like having the same UI on my tablet and my laptop and I use Win8.1 desktop view on both, with a narrow taskbar on the laptop and a wide taskbar on the tablet. I have a "no-button" mouse too, and it's just like a one-button mouse except the button is inconspicuously located on the bottom side.
[00:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:32] <exec> 08└─Match point sir, well done :)
[00:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02isn't that so unexpected... NOT! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:37] <exec> 08└─So the barren nothing out on the deep ocean floor suddenly becomes a precious, diverse community of megafauna the instant somebody wants to harvest some of the minerals. An area the side of CONUS and if they pick up some of the rocks a hitherto unseen ecosystem will collapse. Why am I not surprised?...
[00:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:51] <exec> 08└─Not more acceptable, but more obvious. Of course my personal rationalization is that there is only one government, so all negative actions by governments worldwide are always against their own citizens.
[00:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:57] <exec> 08└─LOL - yes, you are something! And, I agree about people with sticks in their asses. Don't they realize that they look goofy as hell walking like that?
[00:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:00] <exec> 08└─How about both!
[00:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:11] <exec> 08└─They should be expelled from it as a result. Perhaps after considerable ethical re-training they could re-apply.
[00:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck you cunts - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:15] <exec> 08└─Besides that, her lawyer gets half.
[00:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:22] <exec> 08└─People attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border almost every day. Roughly half of them have vaginas.
[00:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:My esteemed canine colleague, Sir Chesterfield. - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:26] <exec> 08└─You are exactly right. My youngest son experienced this very thing in a traffic stop incident. Cop wanted to search, the kid says "Get a warrant", cop says, "We can get a dog out here" son says "Get your dog". Dog follows the handler around the car three times, without alerting on anything. Handler...
[00:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plot twist - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:31] <exec> 08└─Krispy creme donuts actually contain meth.
[00:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02What are 'Gilts' - 06UK Likely to Build its First New Nuclear Power Plant in Decades - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:58:56] <exec> 08└─Gilts are bonds that are issued by the British government, and they are generally considered low-risk investments. Gilts are the U.K. equivalent of U.S. Treasury securities, and the name originates from the original certificates, issued by the British government, which had gilded edges. Gilts can be...
[00:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:59:56] <exec> 08└─No, not even when your 3d printer is actually capable of printing circuits on computer chips (kinda necessary for any version of robot-topia), which will be a very long time from now.
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[01:53:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:20] <exec> 08└─How is it possible that there were more employees than Windows phones?
[01:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:23] <exec> 08└─I like having the same UI on my tablet and my laptop and I use Win8.1
[01:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:26] <exec> 08└─It's easier to insert the mouse into own's ass without any jagged buttons. That was probably the idea.
[01:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:28] <exec> 08└─Steve Jobs as the salesman enjoyed putting his smooth creations up his own ass, because that's the ultimate test of user-friendliness. Wozniak put them up his nose. Either way, there was a lot of stretching going on. I can imagine the internal meetings revealing the products-to-be with a bunch of no...
[01:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 021 in 10 people at Microsoft are in... - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:30] <exec> 08└─General and Administration. Kind of telling if that skews more general than administration, eh?
[01:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:43] <exec> 08└─The REASON we are stripping all the resources in sight is because we need them.
[01:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:44] <exec> 08└─I think you nailed it, Gravis. Why are businesses moving to China and/or third world countries? Partly because labor is so cheap, but also because there are few if any environmental regulations in those countries. I submitted an article about China paying chemical industries to relocate away from Be...
[01:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:CIA cover story becoming reality? - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:48] <exec> 08└─If it's not that it's a straight-faced attempt at addressing China's dominance in supplying rare-earth Metals. Or for finding subsea nukes like the one which caused Fukushima and will likely cause other "tsunami" in the future.
[01:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The barge from that mission... - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:50] <exec> 08└─was the one housing the Sea Shadow when it got sold for scrap a few years back. I remembered reading it was going to be retrofit. Does anyone know what happened with that, or how heavily it was going to be modified from its original Hughes purchased state?
[01:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:isn't that so unexpected... NOT! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:54] <exec> 08└─"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landings there."
[01:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:isn't that so unexpected... NOT! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:53:56] <exec> 08└─1. Find water ocean on Europa. 2. Find life. 3. Strip mine it, make more iPhones. 4. Profit!
[01:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I speak for many when I say that the money should have been spent on hiring people with at least half a brain, so this shit wouldn't have happened in the first place.
[01:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:20] <exec> 08└─Me too, when you put it that way.
[01:54:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Weasel words (and weasels) - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:26] <exec> 08└─"Emotionally shattered she went home feeling like a rape victim." "Feeling", my ass. She was raped. Just because there was no penis involved doesn't make it not rape. (Although there were lots and lots of dicks, I mean agents and doctors.) Of course, none of the rapists involved are going to jail fo...
[01:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:11 years of what? - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:55:42] <exec> 08└─No' not worthless.. Think of all the money the state made thanks to all her prior arrests! Her expertise is *priceless*
[01:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OK, I'll ask. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:07] <exec> 08└─helpful and didn't call you a newb all the time What usenet were you using?! I must have been in very different groups than you. What killed it was the eternal September. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is that sound? - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:24] <exec> 08└─He's going to make a large impact in his field.
[01:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:30] <exec> 08└─it actually doesn't matter, once you reach terminal velocity, after about 200m fall, the initial altitude is irrelevant. With exception of a altitude so high that you are closer to the Karman line than the ground, then the air drag may not be enough to brake you and you end up hiting the ground fast...
[02:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:From the Land of Duh - 06Access to Vocational Education Reduces Crime - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:00:24] <exec> 08└─We have this thing called software now, and multi-purpose computers. Or if you're are real cheapskate plug in wireless comms and do it all in the cloud. It's a complete strawman anyway. Robot-topia can still have factories to make the robots. No need to do any of that by yourself, unless it's just f...
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[02:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If I ever found myself in a chemical plant - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:18] <exec> 08└─I'd exit out just as fast as I could, no cash reward necessary.
[02:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If I ever found myself in a chemical plant - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:19] <exec> 08└─And that's why America isn't great anymore, lazy work-shy fool.
[02:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:If I ever found myself in a chemical plant - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:22] <exec> 08└─I'd exit out just as fast as I could, no cash reward necessary.
[02:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:If I ever found myself in a chemical plant - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:24] <exec> 08└─Never looked at it that way - but yeah. I guess so. I've never worked in a chemical plant, but I've visited many. Some can be rather daunting. Before you're allowed in the gate, you get indoctrinated. "If you hear an alarm, you RUN LIKE HELL to the closet evacuation point!" You're seldom given time...
[02:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02To Africa! - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:26] <exec> 08└─Time to pollute Oldupai Gorge with nuclear waste!
[02:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To Africa! - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:29] <exec> 08└─Better than polluting New Upai Gorge.
[02:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To Africa! - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:31] <exec> 08└─Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge [subterraneanpress.com] A team of alien archaeologists visit Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania. Among other things, they discover that a man was once bribed to dump nuclear waste in the gorge.
[02:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Insightful) 02simply decentralizing the problem - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:33] <exec> 08└─the only thing they are doing is moving the problem of unenforced environmental regulation to other cities. if they actually wanted to improve the city, they would force every plant to strictly comply with existing environmental regulation or be shut down until they do. the problem with doing that i...
[02:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:simply decentralizing the problem - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:35] <exec> 08└─the only thing they are doing is moving the problem of unenforced environmental regulation to other cities.
[02:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wait... - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:50] <exec> 08└─What does Disney have to do with Microsoft's phone downsizing? :)
[02:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Wait... - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:51] <exec> 08└─I dunno. I was modded down to zero (0) for saying all that. Damned if I know and you know.
[02:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02D'oh - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:54] <exec> 08└─administration than general, eh?
[02:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's your fault - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:57] <exec> 08└─You didn't upgrade your PC to Windows 10! Thousands were laid off as a result.
[02:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:59] <exec> 08└─Windows CE had a decade head start and is now circling the BlackBerry drain as Windows whatever.
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh no! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:12] <exec> 08└─Later I saw that the Clarion Fracture Zone reaches "the base of the continental slope off Puerto Vallarta, Mex." https://www.britannica.com [britannica.com]
[02:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:isn't that so unexpected... NOT! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:22] <exec> 08└─So pick one: land, sea or space. There is no option #4.
[02:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:38] <exec> 08└─You make it sound like the war on drugs is the only reason why gun-toting thugs go around sexually assaulting people. It's got nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with the prison and the military-industrial complexes. They regularly pull this kind of crap over far less at the airport, the...
[02:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:45] <exec> 08└─One of my ideas is to pass a law that states: "Those people found by a court of law to have a metaphorical stick (anally inserted) should be sentenced to having it made a reality." Lube and stick provided at their expense...since that seems to be how things are done nowadays.
[02:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:47] <exec> 08└─I modded you up, cause I'm big in the pants too! :)
[02:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mr Big in the Pants [4956] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:49] <exec> 08└─Those of us with heft should stick together. My favorite gag is to use the urinal on each side of some poor chap and unleash. Then soon after just snigger randomly. Ahhh....and much fun is had by all.
[02:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck you cunts - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:09] <exec> 08└─And the other half will go to taxes. :(
[02:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullet fee - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:11] <exec> 08└─A whole line of people need to go to prison for this. This is rape.
[03:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No surprise - 06Common Pesticide Appears to Reduce Live Bee Sperm - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:01:15] <exec> 08└─The nervous system doesn't operate in a vacuum. Two possible contributing factors include "during periods of increased activity bees pump their abdomens to increase gas exchange, using expanded sacs of the trachea as bellows" http://osu.libanswers.com [libanswers.com] So the ner...
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[03:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lost that new musky smell - 06Burn, Baby, Burn: SpaceX Test Fires a Rocket Previously Flown in May - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:24] <exec> 08└─Would not reuse again.
[03:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:If I ever found myself in a chemical plant - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:53:36] <exec> 08└─Well aren't you a lucky duck. I'm never allowed past the gate, because I have one of those faces that everybody hates. You know how it is when you're not black enough. You never get invited in a chemical plant, that's for sure.
[03:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's your fault - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:02] <exec> 08└─Add here the best joke you've got. Make us proud. And mod the parent up.
[03:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02Not sure if Funny or Sad... - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:04] <exec> 08└─Googling around shows a lot of "Lead Windows Phone Developer" positions open - I'm sure the poor guys that just got notice in Microsoft's secret underground "Windows Phone" development lair will be able to land on their feat in a cushy position somewhere else. Because nobody would think that platfor...
[03:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure if Funny or Sad... - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:06] <exec> 08└─It's not like Microsoft's hired any Americans in the past 20 years - they're one of the biggest H1-Busers.
[03:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not sure if Funny or Sad... - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:08] <exec> 08└─Stephen Elop will be running for elective office any day now, on the platform of being a business genius who can Make America Great Again.
[03:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:isn't that so unexpected... NOT! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:33] <exec> 08└─First off, the sea bottom is largely unexplored, we don't really know what we're screwing up there. The most likely reason for the discovery now is that nobody had gotten around to examining that portion of the seafloor. Secondly, we don't need those minerals. We haven't yet attempted to extract the...
[03:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Weasel words (and weasels) - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:08] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that even if you do sign a settlement like that that future cases will see that there was a settlement and use it in that fashion. That clause is rather toothless as the people who signed it are unlikely to want to use it in the future as evidence of guilt. It's the other people fili...
[03:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:55:23] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised they settled as that's in that unconstitutional-constitution-free zone that the balls on the SCrOTUmS decided to invent while being true to the exact wording of the constitution.
[04:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The easy answer? - 06Jupiter's Great Red Spot is Heating the Planet's Upper Atmosphere - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:02:29] <exec> 08└─Someone else wrote:You are confusing gravitational waves (ripples in spacetime) with gravity waves (ripples in the atmosphere along a pressure boundary perpendicular to the force of gravity)
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[04:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:45] <exec> 08└─That doesn't appear to be true. An article from last July said that, based on figures released by the company, Microsoft has now sold over 100 million Windows Phone devices since the launch of Windows Phone 7 in 2010.
[04:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:47] <exec> 08└─100 million? Where they all retail sales, or were some given away in cereal packets?
[04:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:00] <exec> 08└─To be fair, MS doesn't know how to enter a market if somebody else doesn't get it to the verge of mainstream acceptance.
[04:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02So stupid. - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:04] <exec> 08└─Microsoft only had 3% of the market so they fire everyone and burn their phone business to the ground? So stupid. Doesn't it make more sense to scale their personnel down to support a 3% market share? That's still a small mountain of money. Why would anyone ever buy a windows phone again? Developer...
[04:55:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Bullet fee - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:16] <exec> 08└─A whole line of people need to go to prison for this. This is rape.
[04:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullet fee - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:17] <exec> 08└─Calling it rape is being rather generous. It's whatever is worse than rape. This wasn't some random skeezy person at a party, or a shady character hiding in an alley, these were medical personnel and law enforcement officers. I'm not sure how much worse it can get than that.
[04:55:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02Re:This news is 2 years old - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 1150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:55:20] <exec> 08└─According to the link you offer, that was her case against the hospital. This article and settlement is around the involvement of U.S. Customs and Border Protection specifically. https://www.aclutx.org [aclutx.org...
[04:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:01] <exec> 08└─You seem have this idea of junkies as evil crooks who like to commit crimes. This is wrong. Many of them held down jobs until the sheer cost of their habit drove them into crime. There is no way outside of crime for most people to support a habit that costs two or three times the average income. Dro...
[04:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Plot twist - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:56:26] <exec> 08└─I honestly would not be surprised if it turned out they contained some kind of, legal, meth related compound that triggered the positive on the field drug test. And given how I've seen children, and adults come to think of it, act after having a Krispy Kreme it also would not surprise me if it reall...
[04:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02What a hell of a way to die.. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:31] <exec> 08└─Https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VWgsdexkv18
[04:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:59:09] <exec> 08└─Quick, James -- move the car!
[05:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Gotta wonder - 06Turkey Shuts Down Media, Fires More Troops - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:01:56] <exec> 08└─I speak no German, of course.
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[05:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02a very nice ride - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks to a nice sponsor, I was able to fly Business class trans-Pacific (SFO to Taiwan) on a 747. I suppose First Class was even nicer, but the service and seating, and a minimum of people walking down the aisle (upper deck) in Business made that long flight relatively pleasant. Are any of the newe...
[05:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:20] <exec> 08└─Newer twin jets (777, A380) have similar or larger capacities, comparable ranges, and are more fuel efficient. Wonder what the niche is where 747 quad jet is preferred.
[05:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:55] <exec> 08└─Neither, I believe. It isn't stated in that article, but elsewhere I read that Microsoft had reported "sales to carriers and to retailers." http://www.networkworld.com [networkworld.com] http://www...
[05:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:03] <exec> 08└─now Redmond is dismantling that failed operation
[05:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02I've got a bad feeling about these nodules. - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:39] <exec> 08└─Whatever you do, don't make the Horta angry! http://memory-alpha.wikia.com [wikia.com] Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a brick layer!
[05:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:51] <exec> 08└─You know, that reminds me of a quote too. Thanks. I enjoyed being reminded of that quote.
[05:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:21] <exec> 08└─I'm shocked that any doctors or nurses would willingly participate in this sham.
[05:56:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02OK, I'll answer. - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 1108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:49] <exec> 08└─Why USENET? my question is, Why web2.0? USENET was based on a clean protocol, which means I could pick the client I liked more, and automate tasks to my liking. No need to beg for API keys, no need to curse when sites alter the user interface, remove features, and so on, no need to execute obfuscate...
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[06:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:53:19] <exec> 08└─Well, it does give you a better feeling upon discovering you have lost an engine - if you know there are still three of 'em still running.
[06:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Children of the Aluminum Overcast - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:20] <exec> 08└─When I was a child, the 747 debuted. First year, legend has it, Boeing had one order for the new plane, dubbed "the Aluminum Overcast". This in spite of the pilot taking the new plane through a barrel roll over Boeing Field in Renton, Washington, on the inaugural flight . Boeing engaged in massive...
[06:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 0245+ Years! - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:22] <exec> 08└─For those who were wondering, the 747 dates back to 1970. Probably will still be flying in another 45 years.
[06:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrial [5162] (Score:1) 02Amusing coincidence - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:24] <exec> 08└─This was article 74/74 in my feed reader's queue. First 3 numbers spell out 747, and isn't that last 4 associated with death in Chinese IIRC? Just caught my eye, thought it was kind of an amusing coincidence...
[06:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:27] <exec> 08└─once we stop producing 747's, we will also halt production of all parts for it. We thank everyone for upgrading to newer models.
[06:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:03] <exec> 08└─Microsoft's annual reports will no doubt show (somewehere, in the fine detail) how much each phone cost to manufacture. The issue, for me, is how they convinced 100 million people to spend *any* money buying one of the handsets.
[06:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:04] <exec> 08└─That doesn't appear to be true.
[06:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 1965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:20] <exec> 08└─Windows CE... Gee, I had just bought a HMI on one of Saelig's clearance sales, hoping to use it with my Arduino-compatibles as part of a SCADA system for my van. When I powered the thing up, first thing it does is give me the Microsoft logo. Windows CE. Sure, I know I can replace the startup flash s...
[06:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:21] <exec> 08└─The problem with Windows CE was it was a palmtop OS shoehorned onto a phone. I owned several CE devices, and for a long time, they were the most powerful and versatile portable devices I had. With CE, I could easily go into the filesystem, and change out system components if I wanted. It was basical...
[06:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:23] <exec> 08└─The * got deleted by accident. To prevent nitpicking, I'm aware that 95 and CE have no commonalty between the two of them beside a name. NT was very much limited to businesses at the time, so at the high point of Microsoft's mobile domination, the comparsion was basically between CE and 95/98. Hones...
[06:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullet fee - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:43] <exec> 08└─Gang raped at the hands of the police state. How about we call it... Korean rape?
[06:55:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:My esteemed canine colleague, Sir Chesterfield. - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 1175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:52] <exec> 08└─You are exactly right. My youngest son experienced this very thing in a traffic stop incident. Cop wanted to search, the kid says "Get a warrant", cop says, "We can get a dog out here" son says "Get your dog". Dog follows the handler around the car three times, without alerting on anything. Handler...
[06:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:My esteemed canine colleague, Sir Chesterfield. - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:54] <exec> 08└─Not really the right way to handle it. Bottom line is that if the cops think they have probable cause to do a search they'll do the search, there's not much point in opposing it beyond just saying no and keeping your mouth shut. Whether or not it is probable cause is something that ultimately gets h...
[06:56:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:56:07] <exec> 08└─Then why even have them? Just buy a glow stick from the dollar store, and if it lights up when snapped, then that's a positive result providing the probable cause needed to violate your rights. It sure would be a lot cheaper.
[06:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score:2) 02Why - 06Gmane is Under Threat - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:14] <exec> 08└─Why is he getting threats?
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[07:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Children of the Aluminum Overcast - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:22] <exec> 08└─I think the barrel roll you spoke of was with the the 707 prototype over Lake Washington in 1955. Video of the feat here [youtube.com] To my knowledge no one has intentionally done a barrel roll in a 747, although it certainly is capable of doing it.
[07:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:27] <exec> 08└─The US Air Force buys retired Boeing 707's and keeps them in a boneyard so they they have spares for the KC-135 midair refueling tanker and the EWACS radar planes. Both are based on the 707, more or less. Omega Air, a private refueling tanker company, also uses retired 707's, and it got into 707 par...
[07:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Burn baby, burn! - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:26] <exec> 08└─Burn to the ground! All of MSFT! May Microsoft rapidly weaken and in 2 years be purchased by a no-name Chinese smartphone manufacturer.
[07:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Roadside test - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:56:14] <exec> 08└─No, black people sink because they just happen to have a bunch of extra bits of lead in them.
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[08:53:20] <exec> 08└─um... A380 is a 4 engine aircraft competing in the market of the B747. I think you meant the A350
[08:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:27] <exec> 08└─I would not be too surprised, knowing how robotics is being integrated with manufacturing, if you have the CAD/CAM files for the part you want, have the machine make you one. I feel the day spare parts for older cars will be ordered from a few people who make anything you can imagine to order with t...
[08:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To Africa! - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:53:49] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately chemical plants need power to work, roads to move production and qualified workers.
[08:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:06] <exec> 08└─Neither, I believe. It isn't stated in that article, but elsewhere I read that Microsoft had reported "sales to carriers and to retailers."
[08:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:People have survived termal velocity falls - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:57:43] <exec> 08└─It may be easier to hit the target from 25,000 feet than 1,500 feet if the plane is slightly off. You have more time to maneuver till you're over the target. If he's not completely crazy there might be other skydivers already "falling by" to give him a chute in case he's too off course to hit the ta...
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[08:57:45] <exec> 08└─BTW they're probably going to have other skydivers around to video him. So they might have extra chutes for him.
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[09:53:17] <exec> 08└─burning wood is quite environmentally unfriendly. a much better solution would be a solar concentrator because the only thing they do is make heat. it wouldn't need to be super large or get absurdly hot (and set birds alight) like industrial scale ones, you just need it to heat recirculating water....
[09:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:24] <exec> 08└─If only... that axe... swung a little higher up... nah, still no loss. hmm, maybe some real improvement.
[09:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:It's your fault - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:29] <exec> 08└─I just bought a car at Mrs Turgid's insistence, mainly for her to use. The brand she insisted on has software from Microsoft for its navigation and in-car entertainment systems... Still, Slackware 14.2 just came out and my official installation media are in the post.
[09:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:bigger Bigger BIGGER - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:56:44] <exec> 08└─You seem have this idea of junkies as evil crooks who like to commit crimes. This is wrong.
[09:57:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey, at least this guy gets a net. - 06Parachutist to Jump From 25,000 feet (7600 m) Without a Parachute/Wingsuit - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:57:46] <exec> 08└─… you better bring a scuba tank for your jump. ;-)
[09:58:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Re:Missing the Point - 06French News Organizations Pledge to Stop Publishing Names and Photos of Terrorists - 1703 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:58:50] <exec> 08└─It's not "censorship". It's refusing to do the job of the terrorists. ISIS is just a bunch of loonies on pickup trucks, who are incapable of taking a town 30km from their "capital" because it's not filled with Sunni. But they are really really good at propaganda, and using the media and the internet...
[10:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is a classic problem - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:00:03] <exec> 08└─"I still don't get this." No, you sure don't. I knew there would be at least one of you popping up. It's simple. There are a billion doors and only one car. You pick a door. Is the car behind it? Of course not. There's a goat behind your door. Now the host offers you the chance to have whatever is b...
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[10:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02peer pressure says click the link - 06Cyberespionage Group Patchwork Sets its Sights on Multiple Industries - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:09] <exec> 08└─http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20030825&mode=classic [userfriendly.org]
[10:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:17] <exec> 08└─Burning wood isn't that environmentally unfriendly if you look at it right. Wood is a renewable resource (and one which an orchard will always have an abundance of) and can be burned very cleanly with the right stove.
[10:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:53:19] <exec> 08└─If he has enough vegetation waste he could burn that instead. Or maybe he just needs to arrange the polyethylene sheets like double glazing for better insulation (but blocks more sunlight).
[10:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:17] <exec> 08└─I think that mspoweruser.com left out a word. Microsoft has now sold over 100 million Windows Phone Home devices since the launch of Windows Phone 7 in 2010.
[10:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:So stupid. - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:42] <exec> 08└─>Microsoft only had 3% of the market so they fire everyone and burn their phone business to the ground? So stupid. I guess they make enough money without investing a dime by software patents regarding Android and patents from Nokia portfolio. The real stupid is Nokia, who did not impale Elop on a ru...
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[10:55:26] <exec> 08└─It's not a "war on plants" it's a war to protect corporate profits in the pharmaceutical, lumber and cotton industries.
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[11:53:22] <exec> 08└─The rogue websites have links to .pps (PowerPoint) or .doc (Word) files hosted on other domains. If downloaded and opened, these files attempt to exploit known vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office in order to execute rogue code on users' computers.
[11:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:45+ Years! - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:53:45] <exec> 08└─Probably will still be flying in another 45 years.
[11:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02Re:An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:49] <exec> 08└─Having developed on WinCE I can tell you it's not Win95 with a new UI. It's much more like MS Dos + Win 3.11. For example is CreateFileMapping (that's mmap, on real operating systems) implemented by simply copying the file in memory for each process again. That means that it doesn't do what you expe...
[11:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:11 years of what? - 06Orlando Man Arrested Because Cops Thought Krispy Kreme Doughnut Glaze Was Crystal Meth - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:57:10] <exec> 08└─Well that explains all the stakeouts in the Florida Krispy Keme parking lots.
[12:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want the goat. - 06Get Those Brain Cells Working: The Monty Hall Problem - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:00:19] <exec> 08└─What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be dealing with the aftermath of the failed coup attempt?
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[12:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02depends on what you mean by portable - 06Novel Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:22] <exec> 08└─I'm an average American: jobless, homeless, and living in a tent under a bridge. I find a stolen shopping cart is sufficiently portable for all my belongings. I connect to the internet with a ten-year-old laptop I found in a dumpster, the laptop fits into a backpack just fine, and I don't need to ch...
[12:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Poor people make stupid suggestions. - 06Cyberespionage Group Patchwork Sets its Sights on Multiple Industries - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:32] <exec> 08└─People trust Microsoft because Bill Gates is the world's richest man, and every person who isn't the world's richest secretly wants to be the world's richest person. You, poor nobody, will never convince people to use your Hacked Office: Terrorist Edition
[12:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:42] <exec> 08└─burning wood is quite environmentally unfriendly. a much better solution would be a solar concentrator because the only thing they do is make heat.
[12:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:53:53] <exec> 08└─You are right. Seems what remains of diminishing 747 market is being eaten up by A380.
[12:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:If I ever found myself in a chemical plant - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 2060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:21] <exec> 08└─You can't be serious. If you did find yourself in one, not going on a tour of the place would be a wasted opportunity. They can be fascinating. And in the first world, they are pretty damned safe. Working in a big plant is amazing. Walking through the miles of pipework and tanks, with all their asso...
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[13:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Right vertict, wrong perpetrator - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:09] <exec> 08└─Terrorism is, in its broadest sense, the use or threatened use of violence (terror) in order to achieve a political, religious, or ideological aim.
[13:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Right vertict, wrong perpetrator - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:11] <exec> 08└─Sensible my ass. Trudeau is a toddler behind the wheel of a large automobile. And what about sensible property values in urban areas? Be smug while you can, syrupnigger, because Canada will be as bad as or worse than the U.S. in only a few years -- although it would be nice if we could offload all o...
[13:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let's Be Socially Isolated, Together! - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:13] <exec> 08└─Obviously using the stupid socialite definition of isolation which means being quiet for five minutes. A socially isolated couple? So very socially isolated that they made pals with the police?? That's at least three people! And three's a crowd!
[13:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:15] <exec> 08└─The FBI churns out terrorists like it's nothing. Almost all foiled U.S. terror plots are manufactured (it's the real ones that succeed and don't get caught). Instead of being called egregious, Comey and crew get a pat on the back.
[13:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:17] <exec> 08└─Almost all foiled U.S. terror plots are manufactured (it's the real ones that succeed and don't get caught).
[13:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:19] <exec> 08└─I understood takyon as "don't get caught before the attack"
[13:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02violation of the sovereign right of juries - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:22] <exec> 08└─The judge violated the absolute right of a jury of their peers to punish the accused for being unpopular losers.
[13:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Ouch - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:24] <exec> 08└─RCMP Entrapped Pair
[13:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:depends on what you mean by portable - 06Novel Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:32] <exec> 08└─But if you had a working battery, you could use that sweet Comcast Xfinity Wi-Fi.
[13:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:depends on what you mean by portable - 06Novel Anode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:53:35] <exec> 08└─The library has free bathrooms where I can bathe in the toilet.
[13:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:04] <exec> 08└─Wonder what the niche is where 747 quad jet is preferred.
[13:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:05] <exec> 08└─The war on drugs and the prison and military industrial complex are all part of the same beast.
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[14:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:24] <exec> 08└─What the AC said. In the FBI entrapment scenarios, the FBI convinces the mentally ill or idiots to buy or accept fake explosives, guns, whatever. They pay informants to help con these people. When they get enough "evidence", they make the arrest, and add another tick to the "foiled terror plot" tall...
[14:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score:1) 02Um... - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:27] <exec> 08└─Surely there is enough jail/prison space for both the RCMPs who set this up and the terrorists.
[14:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:54] <exec> 08└─You are aware that forest fires are natural, right? There have been forest fires for as long as there have been forests. Which, kinda predates man and his primitive fires. And, before that, there were pairie fires, grass fires, bush and shrub fires. In fact, at least one tree has evolved so that it'...
[14:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:53:58] <exec> 08└─Burning wood can be quite environmentally friendly depending upon the specifics. The make or break point on it has less to do with the wood and more to do with the trucking it around. But, if it's harvested locally and burned in a high efficiency stove, there's little negative impact on the environm...
[14:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:2) 02Re:Children of the Aluminum Overcast - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:14] <exec> 08└─A bit of conflation going on here. The barrel roll incident was on the public demo flight of the 707 in 1955; the 747 entered production in 1969; and the "last person out" story came during the downturn of 1971. The sobriquet "Aluminum Overcast" has been attached to any number of large aircraft over...
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[14:56:11] <exec> 08└─That's my point. It doesn't logically follow that we need to legalized drugs to remedy the situation. We could either decriminalize the drugs or turn to a model where it's just the manufacture and distribution that's criminal, not the possession and use. Fixing campaign financing and removing the pr...
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02National Amusements - 06Getty Images Faces $1 Billion Infringement Suit - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:04] <exec> 08└─Although, is it really more absurd than Comedy Central suing CBS for Stephen Colbert using without permission a fictional character known as "Stephen Colbert" that Stephen Colbert used to portray on Comedy Central?
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[15:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Har Har - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─" Along with Samsung, Vizio has been one of the two most-popular TV brands in the US over the last few years. "
[15:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:violation of the sovereign right of juries - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:27] <exec> 08└─If its legal then its not some sacred "sovereign right".
[15:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:59] <exec> 08└─It would b neat to see some math but those details aren't available :(
[15:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:01] <exec> 08└─That only applies if the trees get re-planted though.
[15:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when an engine quits you just arrive a little later. If they all quit, you'll be stuck up there all day.
[15:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:25] <exec> 08└─Firefighters still use 70 year old DC-4s. They still have stacks of engines just as old that have never been unwrapped yet. The 747 can probably remain in service for a hundred more years. Some 80 year old DC-3s are still making money today. I think they should junk the A380 first, just for being so...
[15:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:07] <exec> 08└─Part of the severance package?
[15:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:30] <exec> 08└─Big in the pants eh? I recommend basic exercise and healthy eating. After you drop a few pants sizes, you and the GP will feel much better both physically and mentally.
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[16:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Har Har - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:18] <exec> 08└─TVs are commodities. They are cheaper and lighter than ever before, and don't need to be replaced that often (even the Chinese brands). On a whim, I searched my first sentence and found this lie [tradimo.com]: An example for a good that is not a commodity are TV sets. They have many aspects of produ...
[16:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Har Har - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:19] <exec> 08└─This (commodity) might be true this year? ~5 years ago when we bought a ~42" we looked carefully at different models to see how well they handled objects moving quickly across the screen. There were big differences in the visual artifacts when the scene was moving/changing quickly -- just a guess, t...
[16:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Let's Be Socially Isolated, Together! - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:31] <exec> 08└─You must be from the middle of nowhere then. Socially isolated, means that you don't have a social supports system; it doesn't mean that you don't see anybody. My guess is that when they cleaned up, they got dumped by the junkies they were hanging out with and the non-users weren't terribly supporti...
[16:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:37] <exec> 08└─I have to believe the judge made the correct choice since I didn’t have all the evidence she had to come up with that conclusion, but these were real terrorists. They joined islam, wanted to punished the infidels, and found a way to do it. Only difference is they found fake ISIS instead of real IS...
[16:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Um... - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:43] <exec> 08└─"both the RCMPs who set this up and the terrorists." What do you mean, "both"? The RCMPs set up a terrorist attack, so they are the terrorists.
[16:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:10] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that Smokey the Bear is an anti-environmentalist?
[16:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:17] <exec> 08└─We should try burning muslims then. There are so many around to use as fuel. :-)
[16:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:32] <exec> 08└─As it is, the A380 is likewise struggling to find buyers - Airbus recently reported that they are likely to make a loss on the type long-term. It appears the age of the superjumbo is at an end, and middling widebody is the new ascendent class.
[16:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:44] <exec> 08└─While that might work for automotive and consumer components, that most certainly does not work for aerospace, where the metalurgical treatment of the parts is as important as their geometry. We are not yet at the point where we are doing selective computer controlled thermal processing of parts (th...
[16:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:47] <exec> 08└─...until the part you want is the skin of the aircraft which has too many cracks to continue in service. Then the plane is done, and the other parts might be sold as used, to be fitted onto a different airframe with lower number of pressurization cycles.
[16:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hear Amazon is hiring - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:21] <exec> 08└─Wonder if they'll make robot consumers so the warehouse robots have somewhere to deliver to.
[16:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's your fault - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:55:45] <exec> 08└─N/t: I will proudly wear that as a badge of honor.
[16:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:isn't that so unexpected... NOT! - 06Abundant and Diverse Ecosystem Found in Area Targeted for Deep-Sea Mining - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:24] <exec> 08└─I just knew this comment would be here, though it could have been a handful of users. Jlo was top of the list though. I guess the whole integrated ecosystem still isn't enough to convince some people not to fuck with it. Damn the possible collapse, full profits ahead!!
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[17:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Be careful - 06Billion-Year-Old Air Contains Only 10.9% Oxygen - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:19] <exec> 08└─Handle those samples with care. Consider how your bedroom smells if you keep it closed for the whole day, then multiply by One Billion...
[17:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Har Har - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:30] <exec> 08└─Ok, friend, don't take this as an insult, it's not. You're in the 10%. Not the 1%! But you still have the time and money and concentration and ability and taste to discern between movement with ghosting or none. You probably are a tech worker earning six figures. 90% of the US earns less than you an...
[17:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02The future is looking bright - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:31] <exec> 08└─I look forward to hook up with one of these chinese telescreens, they tell me they are kinder and good looking. I also guess the Chinese are decades ahead in telescreen design.
[17:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Never heard of them - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:33] <exec> 08└─This must be a US-only brand, as it is the first time I hear of Vizio.
[17:53:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:47] <exec> 08└─What the AC said. In the FBI entrapment scenarios, the FBI convinces the mentally ill or idiots to buy or accept fake explosives, guns, whatever. They pay informants to help con these people. When they get enough "evidence", they make the arrest, and add another tick to the "foiled terror plot" tall...
[17:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:49] <exec> 08└─In this particular case, no. They had severe reservations, and brought them up repeatedly with their handler who passed himself off an imam, but he kept on reassuring them they were on the right path - hence, advocating terrorism. That really doesn't look good on the RCMP. Also, the mounties pulled...
[17:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:violation of the sovereign right of juries - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:53:54] <exec> 08└─I felt compelled to mod this down, but then I thought maybe some americans don't know the actual situation. We have this thing in Canada called Appellate Courts - more commonly known as supreme courts (you may have heard of such things) - where you can appeal any decision if you can show some error...
[17:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02ought to remain convicted - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:59] <exec> 08└─Look, even if somebody hands you terrorist equipment and says "you should be a terrorist", it's still not OK to be a terrorist. Every damn fool knows this. Even if it were more like "be a terrorist or we'll poison your cat", everybody knows you're supposed to report the threat. It's a very unusual c...
[17:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignorant people make poor choices. - 06Cyberespionage Group Patchwork Sets its Sights on Multiple Industries - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:17] <exec> 08└─"Looking" means decoding and rendering at the very least, and both of those steps require code to parse supplied data. Since code+data mix in x86, bugs in the (minimal) decode and render steps can introduce data to codespace. You out your noobness by thinking that it's possible to reverse engineer a...
[17:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score:2) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:34] <exec> 08└─depending on the locale, it may be law. i know around here, the local tree harvesters are required to plant 1.25 trees per harvested stock. this helps account for undersized trees that basically get pushed down or otherwise wasted
[17:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:45] <exec> 08└─In 2010, each of Microsoft's 90,000 employees was given a phone. http://www.windowscentral.com [windowscentral.com]
[17:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:49] <exec> 08└─Well put. Yes, Microsoft's offerings would be more successful in the market if they didn't phone home to the mothership so much. Why put up with that when there are alternatives that respect one's privacy?
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[18:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Neat. - 06Billion-Year-Old Air Contains Only 10.9% Oxygen - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:24] <exec> 08└─10,9% oxygen is still breathable. It is the equivalent to the effective oxygen percentage (the concentrations of atmosphere remain the same everywhere no matter the altitude, but the human body can only process this much oxygen due to the pressure difference) at La Paz, Bolivia. The lack of oxygen r...
[18:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never heard of them - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:37] <exec> 08└─It's a program for drawing network diagrams and stuff like that. Microsoft never marketed it much even in the USA but it dominates its niche.
[18:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:55] <exec> 08└─I tried to get a job once as a suicide bomber. They said they were looking for someone with more experience. --- I was about to post this joke logged in and decided not to. It's an indication of how fucked up things have gotten that I would even consider what it would sound like read out loud and ou...
[18:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:53:57] <exec> 08└─And if you think posting as "Anonymous Coward" counts as much protection.... Perhaps you need to reassess your paranoia level. Either that or your technical competence.
[18:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:ought to remain convicted - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:06] <exec> 08└─So their crime is that they were manipulated? Is that really a punishabvle offense?
[18:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Air Farce - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:08] <exec> 08└─These shenanigans remind me of how much I miss the levity of Air Farce. Sergeant Renfrew on the 14th floor of Mountie headquarters and all that.
[18:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:39] <exec> 08└─This is in Canada, so he is probably already doubly insulating them. My question would be more about "How do you filter out smoke?" and "What kind of wood do you use?" Some wood grows really rapidly, think greasewood, though that's not Canadian. And the ashes can be decent fertilizer (soil texturize...
[18:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:a very nice ride - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:54] <exec> 08└─The 787 is freaking nice.
[18:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:58] <exec> 08└─Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim [wikipedia.org]
[18:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:45+ Years! - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:09] <exec> 08└─In 20 years, the skills, support industries, and maching ability needed to maintain these aircraft will fade away. As an aerospace worker in Everett I can only laugh at your post. Our local schools are pumping out aerospace machinists and engineers at an astounding rate. There are jobs waiting for...
[18:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Amusing coincidence - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting, my phone number is (NPA) 474-7474, what do you make of that?
[18:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02people? - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:32] <exec> 08└─MS employees aren't people. they are the enemies of free humanity. I hope they all get hooked on heroin and have to turn tricks like the whores they were at their old job.
[18:57:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:12] <exec> 08└─You know, that reminds me of a quote too. Thanks. I enjoyed being reminded of that quote.
[18:57:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:30] <exec> 08└─I would much rather my money went to compensate the victim than to employ the people harassing her.
[18:57:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:44] <exec> 08└─Indeed, performing procedures they know are not in the patient's interest and against patient consent are cardinal sins (and crimes) in the medical profession. They should be expelled from it as a result. Perhaps after considerable ethical re-training they could re-apply. As for the customs people,...
[18:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:medical board complaint too I hope - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:57:46] <exec> 08└─ohh, yeah right. that's just about all doctors do these days is cause harm for profit.
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[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 022006 called... - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1630 [grsecurity.net]
[19:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2006 called... - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:17] <exec> 08└─I was going to call you snarky but damn you werent kidding!
[19:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Deceptive by Design - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:25] <exec> 08└─Nice to see Ars catching up to a submission here from a few months ago. [soylentnews.org] There are designs that are deceptive by design, such as most download sites. One recent post here that that "hidden is the new closed" is on target, even "Close" on Lync-Skype just minimizes it. This article on...
[19:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Deceptive by Design - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:27] <exec> 08└─Double-click causes more problems than it solves, if any. From an accessibility standpoint, double-clicking is a nightmare (for elderly users, for whom simply clicking once without moving the mouse off their intended target is difficult, imagine trying to click twice within a half-second window). Ju...
[19:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about Mcafee and others - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:29] <exec> 08└─Or installing Mcafee when all you wanted to do was upgrade Flash player. While I don't do it just about everyone does it and I remove Mcafee from such unsuspecting computers until someone else reinstalls it unknowingly. Mcafee is more of a burden to your system than an aid and it's set to install by...
[19:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:What about Mcafee and others - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:32] <exec> 08└─Or installing Mcafee when all you wanted to do was upgrade Flash player.
[19:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Hyperlinks are NOT BUTTONS! - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:34] <exec> 08└─Basically what TFA says, but a slightly different take on it... When the web started invading desktop computers around 98 or so, people indiscriminately started using hyperlinks in places where they should have used buttons. Conceptually a button is supposed to perform an action or do something. A h...
[19:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Yeah, sorry about that - 06Billion-Year-Old Air Contains Only 10.9% Oxygen - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:44] <exec> 08└─In my defence, I did tell you to give it two billion years.
[19:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, all muslims fear for their lives if they disobey an imam. All imams capable of leading a mosque are judges in sharia court, and can order their execution. Yes, the cops/islam did have a hand in it. You can even blame the inanimate objects like drugs or the bombs too, but the fact is they wanted...
[19:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ouch - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:21] <exec> 08└─You're confusing RCMP with CBT, as many do.
[19:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:56] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they're talking about agricultural/industrial use, which has some different considerations from the forest fires you're talking about. Wood burns in forest fires, and forest fires are good. That doesn't mean that burning wood is always good (or optimal). Try not to jerk that anti-SJW...
[19:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chemists - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:28] <exec> 08└─What you need is pumping out chemists (no pun intented) of the kind capable of figuring a CO2 neutral and highly scalable (industrial, not lab level) way to produce fuel for the airplanes. Otherwise all those machinists and engineers will be like past students of other countries: current and future...
[19:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Of course... - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:36] <exec> 08└─Very true. Also the non-metallic parts have to be flam tested and certified. Even the sticker telling you where your life-vest is has reams of paperwork behind it. At least a quarter of any aerospace shop is just QA people.
[19:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:21] <exec> 08└─I hope they did not ship them with batteries installed
[19:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:30] <exec> 08└─Go West, young AC.
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[20:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jail broken - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:17] <exec> 08└─One (or I) wonder how big the effect will be due to all the people insisting on jail breaking their phones and devices.
[20:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Well fuck. - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:18] <exec> 08└─Fuckin' Android. The Anti-Linux. Does everything it can to prevent you from getting root. Shame on google.
[20:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Well fuck. - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:20] <exec> 08└─Fuckin' Android. The Anti-Linux. Does everything it can to prevent you from getting root. Shame on google.
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When a site or program has a hipster UI - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:32] <exec> 08└─I simply stop using it.
[20:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neat. - 06Billion-Year-Old Air Contains Only 10.9% Oxygen - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:41] <exec> 08└─I think one of the issues with oxygen is that oxygen is toxic, it causes oxidation (hydrogen peroxide and superoxide form), unless you have the means to counter it (you need superoxide dismutase and catalase to break down/change these oxidizers into something harmless).
[20:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The future is looking bright - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:54] <exec> 08└─Not really, Samsung began making them in 1969.
[20:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:The future is looking bright - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:55] <exec> 08└─Just ensure you comb your hair before standing in front of it, Winston Smith! And no hanky panky -- I've patented using time-domain fourier transform motion capture(*), so that when a rhythmic movement in front of the camera occurs, the frequency is first analyzed, and when it falls within a certain...
[20:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never heard of them - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:00] <exec> 08└─They are a mostly US brand. They went from my never having heard of them to all televisions of everyone I know, save one, being of Vizio brand. They made some good advertising/sponsorship deals, especially the NCAA football system, and the cost per square inch of screen size is very good. So they ar...
[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Right vertict, wrong perpetrator - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─And from Canada? You're suppose to be the US's sensible neighbor.
[20:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe he at least used TOR and other tools?
[20:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Novelty at best - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:11] <exec> 08└─What's the point? All that production to grow tropical fruits when you can import them in refrigerated containers instead?
[20:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Novelty at best - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:13] <exec> 08└─FTFA “The bananas from the tropics are very old and shipped up from Costa Rica by boat… and then they’re sprayed to make them go yellow,” Brake says. “Ours are very sweet, creamy. Not as big, but a lot better.” Of course he's going to claim theirs are better than imported. But I have lit...
[20:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Novelty at best - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:15] <exec> 08└─That sounds like me back in the days bitching how I miss bacon when I was backpacking through Middle East. Novelty, yeah, but ... well, I guess that what it is, novelty.
[20:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Novelty at best - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they can take some extraordinary measures to grow rice in Nebraska, but they don't for good reasons.
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[21:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:15] <exec> 08└─Why can't the device run autonomously when it is disconnected? Do these things have any security at all? If it is like most other internet connected devices they are easily hackable, allowing someone to.. uhh.. overfeed your pet. Why does this exist?
[21:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:16] <exec> 08└─Ok.... i'll take some guesses.. Why can't the device run autonomously when it is disconnected?
[21:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Insightful) 02“There Will Come Soft Rains” - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:18] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of Ray Bradbury's short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” in which an automated house continued with its housekeeping after its occupants perished.
[21:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:“There Will Come Soft Rains” - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:21] <exec> 08└─There Will Come Soft Rains by Bradbury.pdf [google.com]
[21:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Companionship without responsibility - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:23] <exec> 08└─--dept
[21:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On the Internet - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:25] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows you're a very hungry dog.
[21:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:27] <exec> 08└─Does this mean the little old lady who eats cat food is going to starve to death ? If you can't handle the simple duty of feeding and watering your pet, you don't deserve to have one.
[21:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MAH FREEDOOMS - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:39] <exec> 08└─Dick Bathroom-Stall Man said anybody who wants root should have root. For the FREEEEEDOOOOOOOOOMS.
[21:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kunasou [4148] (Score:2) 02Re:Well fuck. - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:40] <exec> 08└─Exactly, But almost always people do wrong rooting (like using Kingroot) which adds even more spyware (itself, purify...) unless you clean flash the thing... Root should be accessible for developers easily with adb (pc) but not directly from the device since the apps shouldn't be trusted. I use r...
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well fuck. - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─Root should be accessible for developers easily with adb (pc) but not directly from the device since the apps shouldn't be trusted.
[21:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Android updates? - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:45] <exec> 08└─My 2 year lod Android Jelly Bean phone has never notified my of any updates other than the apps downloaded from Google Play Store. I can't jailbreak it because the Cricket phones have some lock on it. Cricket has no info except a looping update website that leads nowhere.
[21:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Har Har - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting comment, not sure why you care? You are correct that I often find the time to research purchases to get something that will do a good job of meeting my (perceived) needs. The expensive 42" Samsung replaced a 25" tube TV that I'd fixed a few times and was really sick of working on... Acco...
[21:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's Be Socially Isolated, Together! - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:36] <exec> 08└─Well let's see, I have no family, I have no friends, I have no job, I don't know anyone, and nobody talks to me. I am social isolation.
[21:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the FBI does this all the time - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─No, but he is behind seven proxies!
[21:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Oooh! Never Piss Off the Cops! - 06Judge Tosses Jury Verdict in B.C. Terror Trial, Rules RCMP Entrapped Pair - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:59] <exec> 08└─Not mentioned in the summary, but the cops rearrested them within a couple of hours, and are trying to apply for - I am not making this up - a special terrorism peace bond. [www.cbc.ca] "The purpose of a terrorism peace bond is to prevent or disrupt a specific individual from committing a terrorism...
[21:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the smoke is sent up a chimney.
[21:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Two engines - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:17] <exec> 08└─If I'm flying overseas, I'd feel more comfortable with 4 engines instead of 2.
[21:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Terrible - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:20] <exec> 08└─Actually its a "war for corporate profits of big pharma" as they released a study recently on the effect of legal pot on big pharma...wanna guess what they found? 300% fewer anti-anxiety drugs prescribed, 200% fewer anti nausea drugs prescribed and a whopping 1750% fewer pain meds prescribed! So it...
[21:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Bullet fee - 06US Government Pays $475,000 for Illegally Searching Woman's Vagina - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:58:58] <exec> 08└─Calling it rape is an insult to actual victims of rape. I note, for example, no chance of injury, venereal disease, or pregnancy which are common concerns with rape victims. We can see that this is a crime without the puffery.
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[22:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:16] <exec> 08└─Surely having a fallback time mode would not be too much to ask. Its not like the internet never goes down. We don't want to make it too foolproof, because, If it were legal, some people would feed their children this way.
[22:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:17] <exec> 08└─It's not too much to ask, but I can't see how that would benefit the companies or investors involved in this product. I can see how it would cost more in various ways for the company and investors, especially over a "*requires internet connection" disclaimer. If they don't keep detailed analytics on...
[22:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:20] <exec> 08└─This is the cloud model... it's the same reason it's so damn hard to place a point to point video chat on the internet. Some of it is traceable to IPV4 and firewalls, mostly, it's the structure favoring centralized businesses which retain access to all the dataflow. So, no, there's absolutely no rea...
[22:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:“There Will Come Soft Rains” - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:24] <exec> 08└─There's a Soviet short movie [youtube.com] based on that story. Kinda depressing, but at least the house kept on going. With modern tech it would stop as soon as it lost cloud access.
[22:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:29] <exec> 08└─"watering your pet" That's silly, you don't water your pet. You water your pot.
[22:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:31] <exec> 08└─It allows people to go away for the weekend and leave their pet at home. The only thing worse than traveling with a pet is finding someone to feed it when you are gone. This is why once the kids are out of the house we no longer have pets. Its not like you would forget a hungry dog or cat if you wer...
[22:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kunasou [4148] (Score:2) 02Re:Well fuck. - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:46] <exec> 08└─Since adb is just 1.2mb... I installed once the developer tools, copied out adb/fastboot and removed the other stuff. They're surely bloated, they even pack emulators by default, since why not? Let's waste hard drive space.
[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Deceptive by Design - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:53:56] <exec> 08└─One click ought to be enough for anyone.
[22:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02UX design and the end of an age - 06Dark Patterns Are Designed to Confuse and Enroll - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:01] <exec> 08└─One discipline to describe them all, One search engine to find them, One pattern to enroll them all and in the darkness bind them. Works for me!
[22:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neat. - 06Billion-Year-Old Air Contains Only 10.9% Oxygen - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:12] <exec> 08└─Oxygen is toxic, and these rocks prove that the amount in the atmosphere today is double what it should be. Could human activities be adding to oxygen pollution? There's only one Earth. If we get this wrong we're doomed.
[22:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Parse Error - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:21] <exec> 08└─Production of the 747 will therefore been reduced just six planes a year
[22:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:To Africa! - 06Beijing Doles Out Cash Rewards for Exiting Chemical Plants - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:45] <exec> 08└─Africa has a long history of nuclear horrors. The remains of the Oklo reactor still havn't been cleaned up, for example.
[22:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:57:05] <exec> 08└─I would assume that, like every other manufacturer, Microsoft uses a lithium polymer batteries. I've never seen such a battery leak, if that's what you're describing. Why manufacturers always package the battery separately from the phone, rather than pre-installing it, I don't know. I assume it's to...
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[23:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$65k in DC - 06Pour Yourself a Pint, This Museum is Hiring a 'Beer Historian' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:15] <exec> 08└─My self-designed concentration in Frat Culture is really about to hit the jackpot.
[23:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I applied there - 06Pour Yourself a Pint, This Museum is Hiring a 'Beer Historian' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:16] <exec> 08└─But, as usual, they told me I was overqualified for the job.
[23:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tough job but somebody's got to do it - 06Pour Yourself a Pint, This Museum is Hiring a 'Beer Historian' - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe that PhD in history was useful after all. If they can make a fun and informative exhibit focused on beer, I'd bet it would draw a bunch of visiters to the Smithsonian. They certainly do worse things with the money we send them.
[23:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:29] <exec> 08└─We don't want to make it too foolproof, because, If it were legal, some people would feed their children this way.
[23:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bachelor Chow is Already Here - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:31] <exec> 08└─Its already here. Its called soylent. [soylent.com]
[23:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Lots of questions... - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:34] <exec> 08└─Do these things have any security at all?
[23:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:44] <exec> 08└─The problem is that it uses proprietary software and relies on companies to continue working, which makes it worthless.
[23:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:46] <exec> 08└─More to the point, does this mean that various little old ladies are going to get eaten by their underfed cockerpoos? Seriously, what the chuck is wrong with the world when you have to connect to the fecking internet to run a goddamned from job?
[23:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:49] <exec> 08└─And even worse, I can't write words like fucking or cron without this stupid fucking phone 'correcting' them?
[23:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:51] <exec> 08└─Phones are for phoning. Get a typewriter. [observer.com]
[23:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Starve to death - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:53] <exec> 08└─In the good old days the 1%'ers hired a dog walker who also had a key to your house to get the dog out while you were at work. For a little extra they would also be a dog sitter and feed the dog (food and human contact) while you were away. Somewhere (maybe after Y2K?) many of the dog walkers hooked...
[23:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's true what they say .. - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:55] <exec> 08└─There's now empirical evidence: Every time there's a Cloud outage, god kills a puppy.
[23:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02I didn't know cats read Soylent - 06Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:57] <exec> 08└─Cats, Dogs Go Hungry as Internet-Connected PetNet Plays Dead
[23:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2006 called... - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:07] <exec> 08└─Google still thinks spinlocks in Android are a great idea. So why expect much from them?
[23:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02not the kernel, it's all the android crap - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:18] <exec> 08└─While the Linux kernel does have some documented security weaknesses, the REAL problem with Android is the crap that Google allows, starting with allowing manufacturers to abandon phones, tablets, and devices without security updates. "Heartbleed" will be fixed on a billion Android devices when? Sec...
[23:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not the kernel, it's all the android crap - 06Google Beefs Up Linux Kernel Defenses in Android - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:20] <exec> 08└─Cool story, rms jr.
[23:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never heard of them - 06Chinese Conglomerate LeEco Acquires Vizio for $2 Billion - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:02] <exec> 08└─Wrong spelling -- microsoft.office.com/Visio
[23:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignorant people make poor choices. - 06Cyberespionage Group Patchwork Sets its Sights on Multiple Industries - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:58] <exec> 08└─Hey, have you hit on a defense against malware? What if we had Harvard architecture cpus with separate program and data memory, would that make it easier to keep the crap out? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's not like memory is expensive anymore, I'd be happy t...
[23:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:could be better - 06Meet the Farmer Who's Growing Bananas in Ontario - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:20] <exec> 08└─Some variation on clearcut/replant cycle is well-suited to lumber production, but it's not the only silviculture practice available. If you want an ongoing supply of wood for fuel, rather than lumber, coppicing is probably a better choice.
[23:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:Inefficient - 06Death of 747 Now 'Reasonably Possible' Says Boeing - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:56:43] <exec> 08└─Until recently, the airlines had to use quad-engined planes on some routes, such as South America to Australia where there really is no place to make an emergency landing for a large portion of the flight. The idea being of course that having four engines is better if one or two of them quit on you....
[23:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:An Obvious Ending - 06Microsoft Axes 2,850 More Windows Phone, Sales Staff - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:58:13] <exec> 08└─I'm aware CE internally under the hood has little in common. Programming for it wasn't a whole lot of fun either with everything having to use unicode everything, and some of the internal APIs being down right strange (DLL behavior you menthoned is one of them), though it was better than coding for...